Amazon Kindle

[Sudeep]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=sv_kinh_0

Does anyone have it?

I'm looking to possibly buy it, but it's one of those products where you're not sure until you buy it or forget about it.

 

[Top_Cat]

I'm sure it'll be reasonably popular but I highly doubt it'll be the 'future of book reading'. In the midst of CD sales going down and MP3 popularity increasing, has anyone else noticed a fairly sharp increase in vinyl buying? Despite the fact vinyl doesn't actually sound any better these days (everything, regardless of the medium, is recorded digitally so buying vinyl for the analogue sound is a waste of time), people still want to own stuff in a meaningful way and have a physical version of it sitting on their shelf. A device which has text on a screen doesn't imbue it with something the person feels like they own.

plus, I don't believe for a second that the screen is indistinguishable from reading a book. Your eyes know better than that.

 

[Matteh]

Swear i heard at some point that 7" vinyl is currently the highest selling medium. I'm a fan of vinyl, S&G - Bridge Over Troubled Water for 10p, epic bargain.

 

[Top_Cat]

Swear i heard at some point that 7" vinyl is currently the highest selling medium. I'm a fan of vinyl, S&G - Bridge Over Troubled Water for 10p, epic bargain.

That one probably does sound better, though. It was recording using an analogue system.

 

[cpr]

Swear i heard at some point that 7" vinyl is currently the highest selling medium. I'm a fan of vinyl, S&G - Bridge Over Troubled Water for 10p, epic bargain.

Bah, i got ripped off, i payed 50p. ****ing Shelter charity shop, they'll only spend it on drugs and booze.

Looks mint framed though.

 

[ripper868]

that thing looks like someone acting like the opposite sex.

i can't even read my lectures off my computer, i have to print them out otherwise it dont go in.

 

[blahblahblah]

Just brought into the India market, damn fast amazon


Croma brings in Amazon's Kindle to India - Sci/Tech - DNA

 

[benchmark00]

"Where is Sudeep Popat??"

 

[_Ed_]

The avatar is still oddly mesmerising.

 

[silentstriker]

I'm sure it'll be reasonably popular but I highly doubt it'll be the 'future of book reading'.

It's the future of book reading.

 

[Top_Cat]

Worst. Prediction. Ever.

(that said I do know some irrational readers who steadfastly refuse to buy an e-reader)

 

[LongHopCassidy]

After this I can never go back to the print edition of CW tbh.

 

[Dan]

(that said I do know some irrational readers who steadfastly refuse to buy an e-reader)

That would include me. Only ebooks I have are 1984 and Animal Farm, and that was only because they were $1 each. Otherwise, it has to be a physical book IMO.

 

[silentstriker]

Why? I am genuinely curious - I know a few people do but having your whole library with you at all times is so freaking convenient, plus kindle is so easy to read and the battery lasts so long that I'm at the point where I don't like buying books that aren't on the kindle. I mean I get bored on an airplane and want to read a book I haven't read for years? Fine. Want to read a favorite passage from a book? There it is. I thought I was a pretty good reader before, but the Kindle has easily doubled the amount of books I read, despite me having less time these days.

 

[Spikey]

That would include me. Only ebooks I have are 1984 and Animal Farm, and that was only because they were $1 each. Otherwise, it has to be a physical book IMO.

got some bad news boi, you over paid: George Orwell: free web books, online

 

[Top_Cat]

Why? I am genuinely curious - I know a few people do but having your whole library with you at all times is so freaking convenient, plus kindle is so easy to read and the battery lasts so long that I'm at the point where I don't like buying books that aren't on the kindle. I mean I get bored on an airplane and want to read a book I haven't read for years? Fine. Want to read a favorite passage from a book? There it is. I thought I was a pretty good reader before, but the Kindle has easily doubled the amount of books I read, despite me having less time these days.

There are certain things a kindle can't replicate; the smell of a new book, physical turning of the pages, easier to jump back 100 pages when something unexpected happens and you need to re-read part of the story, all the romantic stuff (y'know, **** you have no clue about). I do love my Kindle for all the same reasons you do (including reading faster) but appreciate all that too. That and Kindles still glare under certain light so taking one outside for a warm glowing read is still not as easy as taking a real book.

I maintain that some books you just want to own in a physical sense too. I know, technically, we never truly own books, the content is licensed, the industry doesn't exercise it's rights fully to prevent resale, etc. but **** it, that's the way many people view books.

 

[silentstriker]

The kind of romanticism displayed by the horse buggy owner when the automobile came about I'm sure .

 

[Top_Cat]

Hate to break it to ya but there are craaaazy people out there who, even today, enjoy going for a adventure in horse-drawn carriages. Even on the back of the horse itself.....! W33p for the future.

 

[silentstriker]

And that'll be exactly the status of physical book readers soon . People doing it for the novelty, or for the 'fun' once in a while.

 

[uvelocity]

kind of like eating snakes